Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab vs The Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab
This app helps you track your weekly set goals for each muscle group to optimize hypertrophy. It offers visual tracking with color-coding and analytics to provide feedback on your training input. Plan your workouts or track as you go to ensure every set counts towards your goals.
- Weekly set tracking for muscle groups
- Hypertrophy goal setting
- Color-coded muscle group tracking
- Workout planning and flexibility
- Secondary and tertiary muscle counting
- Analytics for training input feedback
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Weekly Set Tracking / Muscle Groups Finally, you can track your weekly set goals for each muscle group! Aiming for 15-20 sets for hypertrophy? Easy. Different colors for each muscle group ensure smoother tracking. After 2-3 weeks, it becomes second nature, allowing you to plan and track effortlessly. Plan Your Week so you know exactly what you'll do, with the flexibility to edit as needed. Or simply track as you go and use the weekly set tracker to see how much you have left. What about secondary and tertiary muscles? We count them toward their corresponding muscle groups, but at a smaller rate, ensuring every effort counts. We stand for the 80/20 rule—measure what truly matters: your training input in the gym. Get honest feedback in Analytics and uncover why a certain muscle group might not be growing as expected. Are you putting in enough sets each week? Stay focused. Track smart. Make every set count. Terms & Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Log
This app helps you track your weightlifting progress by showing your previous performance before each set. It automatically starts a rest timer on your lock screen and provides insights into your one-rep max and training volume. Focuses on simplicity for experienced lifters.
- See previous set performance instantly
- Automatic lock screen rest timer
- Estimated one-rep max tracking
- Calendar view with workout intensity
- Exercise suggestions based on muscle groups
- Workout data stays on device
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The only thing that builds muscle is progressive overload. Lift a little more than last time, recover, repeat. It's not complicated — but it's easy to forget what "last time" actually was. That's the problem The Log solves. How it works: Open the app and tap your exercise. Before you log a single rep, you'll see exactly what you did last time — your top set, the weight, the reps, everything you need. No scrolling through old entries or trying to remember what you hit last week. It's already there, waiting for you to beat it. Log your working sets in a few taps. When you finish a set, the rest timer starts automatically and shows up as a Live Activity on your lock screen so you can glance at your phone without unlocking it or digging back into the app. Exercise, see what to beat, log it, rest, repeat — that's your entire workflow. What you get: The moment you start logging an exercise you've done before, your previous top set shows up automatically. This is the core of the app and the reason it exists, making progressive overload obvious without any extra work on your part. Your rest timer runs right on your lock screen as a Live Activity. You don't need to keep the app open or check it constantly, just glance and get back to lifting when you're ready. The stats page tracks your estimated one-rep max based on your top sets, so you can watch it trend upward over weeks and months without doing any extra math. Every workout gets logged to a calendar view where the intensity of each day reflects how many sets you did, making weeks of consistency visible at a glance. You'll also see how your training volume is distributed across movement patterns, so you'll know whether you're actually balanced or quietly neglecting your weak points. When you start typing an exercise, The Log suggests options based on muscle groups and movement tags. Over time you'll build your own library of movements that fits how you actually train. What you won't find: There's no AI writing your program, no social feed showing what strangers lifted, no ads interrupting your sets. You don't need to create an account and your data never leaves your device. The Log is built for people who already know how to train. You don't need an app telling you what to do - you need one that remembers what you did and stays out of your way while you work. Who it's for: You've been lifting for a while and you have a program or at least a general plan. You've tried other apps and they felt like too much — too many screens, too many features, too much friction when all you want is to log a set and move on. Or maybe you've been using notes or a spreadsheet and it mostly works, but you're tired of the scrolling and formatting and manual organization. The Log sits in the middle. More structured than notes, less cluttered than everything else. Privacy by default Your workout data stays on your device. There's no account to create, no server storing your lifts, no analytics tracking what you do. The app works fully offline and syncs only when you want it to. This is a tool, not a platform trying to build a profile on you. Pricing Your first month is completely free with full access to every feature. After that, you can go monthly at $2.99, yearly at $29.99, or pay $49.99 once for lifetime access and never think about it again. If you ever cancel, you keep read access to every workout you've logged. Your data is yours regardless of whether you're paying. From an independent developer The Log is built by one person, not a team optimizing for engagement metrics. There's no growth strategy that depends on making the app addicting and no investor asking about daily active users. Just a tool that does what it's supposed to do and nothing more. Download it, try it for a month, and see if it helps you lift heavier. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab at 18.0 against The Log's 26.2. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and The Log sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab against 5.0 for The Log. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab | The Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tropic Tech Ltd | PIETER CORNELIUS DE BRUIJN |
Customer experience
Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab
The Log
In-app purchases
Gym Workout Tracker Muscle Lab
- Muscle Lab Weekly Pro3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Muscle Lab Monthly Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Muscle Lab Quarterly Pro$19.993 Months
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- Muscle Lab Yearly Pro$39.991 Year
- LifetimeFree
The Log
- The Log - Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- The Log - Yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- The Log - Lifetime$49.99
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